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‎Le Palace‎

‎Topkapi. The Palace of Felicity‎

‎Ertug, Ahmet: Topkapi. The Palace of Felicity. Istanbul: Ahmet Ertug, 1994. 244pp with 140 colour plates (many full-page), numerous line drawings. Cloth in a slipcase. 37x26.5cms. This richly illustrated survey of one of the most beautiful legacies of the Ottoman Empire is divided into three main sections: Birun - The Outer Palace (the first and second courtyards); Enderun - The Inner Palace (the Imperial kiosks); and The Harem - The Forbidden Enclave (courtyard of the black eunuchs, the women's compounds, and the apartments of the sultans and princes). With appendices: the use of modular Turkish house components in Topkapi Palace; the palace gardens; the Ottoman sultans; key to the plan of Topkapi Palace; the project's collaborators. With bibliography.‎

‎This richly illustrated survey of one of the most beautiful legacies of the Ottoman Empire is divided into three main sections: Birun - The Outer Palace (the first and second courtyards); Enderun - The Inner Palace (the Imperial kiosks); and The Harem - The Forbidden Enclave (courtyard of the black eunuchs, the women's compounds, and the apartments of the sultans and princes). With appendices: the use of modular Turkish house components in Topkapi Palace; the palace gardens; the Ottoman sultans; key to the plan of Topkapi Palace; the project's collaborators. With bibliography. Text in English‎

‎Bargello Palace The Invention of Civic Architecture in Florence‎

‎, Brepols, 2016 267 p240 x 240 mmIllustrations:152 b/wEnglish, Latin, Italian. ISBN 9781909400313.‎

‎This book offers a new, revised building history of the Bargello, the first town hall of Florence. A careful analysis of documents, fabric, and restoration allows us to reconstruct the original site. It reveals two previously unidentified building stages. The first palace, begun in 1255, adapted an ex-neighborhood consortium, reusing an old tower and three houses. In the 1280s, a second palace arose next to it, thus creating a twin-palace complex for the Podest and Capitano, the highest-ranking public officials. Long misidentified as the 1255 palace, the front wing's lower two stories were actually built in 1291-1308. An unroofed precinct wall enclosed the older structures behind a monumental facade, forming an open-air courtyard used for tribunals and stables. This part became known as the ?old palace? when the large, arcaded courtyard and rear wing were addded in 1316-1322. The "new palace" containing the Magdalen Chapel was designed for the Angevin court in residence, not for the communal administration of justice as generally believed. After a 1332 fire devastated the upper stories, the front wing was covered with two immense roof vaults in 1332-1346. Inside, many old dividing walls survived until the nineteenth century. They were demolished with the prisons during the building's conversion into the present national museum, concocting the two vast exhibition halls. This book illustrates the Bargello's early architecture. Reinterpreting the timeline radically changes our understanding of the palace's construction, function, and urban context during the formation of early modern Florence. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Surviving Monument 2. Site and Neighborhood, 1255 3. Disentangling the Evidence 4. Old Bargello: A Palace for the Florentine Popolo, 1255?1308 5. New Bargello: Court of Lords, 1316?1346 6. Function, Iconography, and Urbanism Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Photo Credits Index‎

‎Late Antique Palatine Architecture. Palaces and Palace Culture: Patterns of Transculturation‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 213 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:110 b/w, 50 col., 10 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503574721.‎

‎Summary Late antique palaces and palace culture served as the loci of dramatic shifts in architecture and design, as well as urban planning, public works and patronage, in the imperial cities of Rome and Constantinople, and the first palatine centres of the Holy Roman Empire. This volume provides a wealth of detailed information and perspectives on late antique and early medieval design practices, with emphasis on the new spatial configurations and their decorative schema. The essays in this collection provide original, ground-breaking narratives on palatine architecture and culture in this period, integrating cross-cultural dialogues from Rome as centre of imperial palace architecture with details of late palace embellishments and the ceremonial usage which was brought to the fore, as the discussion shifts to the new imperial capital of Nova Roma, Constantinople, and then to the Carolingian centres via Rome and Ravenna. A parallel discussion emerges, where prototypes for palaces and ceremonial courts were imported and reinterpreted through a process of citation. Principal interest resides in the contrasts of palatial and residential complexes, intended to demonstrate new ceremonies and the practices enacted within and through them. The focus of the volume is then shifted to eastern and western provincial and rural high-status residences and landscapes of power, examining the relationships between palaces and late Roman villas and the court and court culture, ultimately revealing a political agenda in use through and in the language of architecture. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Preface in commemoration of Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt - Adolf Hoffmann The Palace of the Roman Emperors on the Palatine in Rome - Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt Magna Mater and the pignora imperii: Creating Places of Power - Sarah Wilson The Political Power of the Palace: The Residences of Maxentius in Rome - Elisha Ann Dumser Adapting to a New Concept of Sovereignty: Some Remarks on Tetrarchic Palace Architecture - Dr Verena Jaeschke Diocletian's Palace: Villa, Sacrum Palatium, Villa-Cum-Factory, Chateau? - Josko Belamaric Architecture, Innovation and Economy in the Late Roman Danube-Balkan Region: Palaces and 'Productive Villas' from Pannonia - Lynda Mulvin The porticus post scaenam of Lugdunum Convenarum - Daniel M. Millette The Question of the Survival of Roman Architectural Traditions within the Byzantine Great Palace - Nigel Westbrook 'In More Romano': Medieval Residences of the Holy Roman Empire - Bernd Nicolai Bibliography‎

‎Jubilé de la Reine Victoria. 22 juin 1897. Album unique composé de documents collectés par Ernesta Stern dont : Plan de l'itinéraire de la procession ; 6 photographies par Downey, photographe de la Reine ; Portrait de la reine par Nicholson (gravure sur bois en couleurs) ; 3 invitations diverses ; Programme du Royal Opera Covent Garden du 23 juin 1897, sur soie à galons d'argent ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne") ; 5 ephemera dont invitation de Lord Chamberlain à l'Afternoon Party du 28 juin 1897 à Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace") , etc... - Jubilee of Queen Victoria. June 22, 1897. Unique album composed of documents collected by Ernesta Stern including: Map of the route of the procession; 6 photographs by Downey, photographer to the Queen; Portrait of the Queen by Nicholson (colour woodcut); 3 various invitations; Program of the Royal Opera Covent Garden of June 23, 1897, on silk with silver braid ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne"); 5 ephemera including Lord Chamberlain's invitation to the Afternoon Party of 28 June 1897 at Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace"), etc.‎

‎Album in-folio oblong (41 x 63 cm) pleine toile grise d'époque, armes d'Angleterre peintes sur le premier plat, médaille incrustée en bas du premier plat ("Victoria Regina et Imperatrix" à l'avers, "In Commemoration Victoria 1837-1897" au revers), Jubilé de la Reine Victoria. 22 juin 1897. Album unique composé de documents collectés par Ernesta Stern dont : Plan de l'itinéraire de la procession ; 6 photographies par Downey, photographe de la Reine ; Portrait de la reine par Nicholson (gravure sur bois en couleurs) ; 3 invitations diverses ; Programme du Royal Opera Covent Garden du 23 juin 1897, sur soie à galons d'argent ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne") ; 5 ephemera dont invitation de Lord Chamberlain à l'Afternoon Party du 28 juin 1897 à Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded bu The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace") - Jubilee of Queen Victoria. June 22, 1897. Unique album composed of documents collected by Ernesta Stern including: Map of the route of the procession; 6 photographs by Downey, photographer to the Queen; Portrait of the Queen by Nicholson (colour woodcut); 3 various invitations; Program of the Royal Opera Covent Garden of June 23, 1897, on silk with silver braid ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne"); 5 ephemera including Lord Chamberlain's invitation to the Afternoon Party of 28 June 1897 at Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded bu The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace")‎

‎Impressionnant album souvenir unique du Jubilé de la Reine Victoria, composé par Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", écrivain fameuse pour son salon du Faubourg Saint-Honoré où elle accueillit notamment Marinetti ou Marcel Proust. Née Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, elle épousa le banquier Louis Stern. Etat très satisfaisant (frottements et rousseurs, plusieurs feuillets débrochés). Impressive unique souvenir album of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, composed by Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", famous writer for her salon in Faubourg Saint-Honoré where she notably welcomed Marinetti or Marcel Proust. Born Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, she married the banker Louis Stern (binding rubbed, some foxing, several unstitched leaves).‎

‎Guide to the Great Kremlin Palace. Guide to The Great Kremlin Palace. In Englis‎

‎Guide to the Great Kremlin Palace. Guide to The Great Kremlin Palace. In English: Synod Press, 19/Putevoditel po Bolshomu Kremlevskomu dvortsu. Guide to The Great Kremline Palace. Na angl. yaz. M.: Synod Press, 19 Guide to the Great Kremlin Palace. Guide to The Great Kremlin Palace. In English: Synod Press, 1914. 138 p.: il. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-8f818a2dae96f988.‎